Why the Health and Social Care Bill won’t fix Britain’s care crisis
Caring for my dying father, I learned I wasn’t just nursing a man towards oblivion, but a socio-economic system.
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The National Health Service is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. Find here, the New Statesman’s latest comment and analysis on the NHS, including the government’s healthcare policy, the current crisis and the future of the NHS.
Tech bosses know the real prize is privatising the NHS’s future
Peter Thiel’s data company Palantir is poaching health service experts as it eyes a deal worth up to £1bn.
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Jeremy Hunt: “It’s a rabbit hole to try and change how the NHS is structured”
The former health secretary and 2019 Tory leadership candidate on Blue Wall Toryism, health policy and social care.
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Zero: Jeremy Hunt’s book on the NHS is well intentioned – but misses 90 per cent of the story
Candid on short-staffing and underfunding, ministerial memoir Zero omits the healthcare that happens in the community.
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The Tories are trying to blame the Bank of England for our economic crisis
MPs and ministers are looking for a scapegoat for the coming recession.
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“Frankly, people are dying”: The NHS spring crisis your higher taxes can’t solve
A record hospital backlog is putting patients “in danger” and leaving them “cynical” about the health service, the New Statesman…
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Inflation is eating away at Britain’s schools and hospitals
Rising prices are hitting the most important workers the hardest.
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From the NS archive: Property of the professionals
30 September 1983: Much was wrong with welfare socialism from the beginning.
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No one believes the Tory fairytale that the NHS needs anything except more funding
It's wishful thinking to blame lazy staff for its problems.
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Why has it taken tragedy to stop the NHS pushing for “natural” births?
During my three days in labour I asked for a c-section countless times. I felt forgotten about, in danger and…
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From the NS archive: It is easier to work than to mother
22 May 2000: The government will help you out with childcare, but isn’t that keen on your doing any parenting…
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Truth’s out: our “natural” birth obsession kills
The Shrewsbury report proves C-sections save lives.
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GP chief calls for independent well-being regulator
Failure to put measures in place to support the mental health of staff could see the NHS collapse from within.
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Ben Whishaw’s haggard junior doctor was working 16 years ago – the NHS is even worse today
Post-Covid and Conservative cuts, hospitals are closer to collapse than depicted in Adam Kay's dramatised diaries, This is Going to…
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BBC One’s This Is Going To Hurt is cold, mean and – crucially – not funny
Ben Whishaw is miscast in this adaptation of Adam Kay's bestselling medical memoir, and there is something badly amiss with…
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“It is embarrassing for the Prime Minister”: why the government really U-turned on NHS mandatory vaccines
“I’ve been bombarded with messages of people so worried that they were going to lose their livelihoods. It’s been horrific.”
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“Elderly patients with broken hips wait for hours”: an NHS paramedic on the grim reality of ambulance delays
Ambulance waiting times are now so long that some heart attack and stroke patients are being advised to get lifts…
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How the UK trails its European neighbours for hospital capacity
Britain has fewer hospital beds per head than Germany, France and Italy.
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Is a huge NHS tax rise the only way to make lockdowns history?
Without a debate about paying for extra capacity in hospitals, pandemic chaos will continue to threaten the economy.
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Why “moonlighting” GPs should not be demonised for taking on extra work
Doctors say that primary care would “collapse” without GPs working privately to prop up the NHS.
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